This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
O, such a day, So fought, so followed, and so fairly won, Came not till now to dignify the times, Since Caesar's fortunes!
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O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year. The Merry Wives of Windsor (Anne Page at III, iv)
Conscience | Cunning | Defeat | Devil | Father | Force | Gall | Heart | Heaven | Life | Life | Murder | Oppression | Passion | Play | Power | Property | Revenge | Soul | Spirit | Tears | Weakness | Will | Words | Murder | Guilty |
O, let her brother live: Thieves for the robbery have authority When judges steal themselves. Measure for Measure (Angelo at II, ii)
Only your love is the enemy. You are you, but you're a Montesco. Is a Montesco? It is not hand, nor foot, nor arm, nor face, nor any part of the body. Change the name! What is a name? What we call pink, another name would have the same flavor. If Romeo was not called Romeo, conserve their very perfection without that title. Romeo, rejects this name is not a part of you and takes me to change me.
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Please you, I'll tell you as we pass along, That you will wonder what hath fortuned. Come, Proteus, 'tis your penance but to hear The story of your loves discovered; That done, our day of marriage shall be yours: One feast, one house, one mutual happiness.
Murasaki Shikibu, aka Lady Murasaki
Foolish indeed are those who trust to fortune.
A large portion of human beings live not so much in themselves as in what they desire to be. - They create an ideal character the perfections of which compensate in some degree for imperfections of their own.
Immortality | Instinct | Life | Life | Words |
Nothing yet proves that continued progress is inevitable, but that it is possible no one but an extreme skeptic or pessimist can doubt.
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Ban Zhao, courtesy name Huiban
Let a woman be correct in manner and upright in character in order to serve her husband. Let her live in purity and quietness of spirit, and attend to her own affairs. Let her love not gossip and silly laughter. Let her cleanse and purify and arrange in order the wine and the food for the offerings to the ancestors. When a woman observes such principles as these, then she may be said to continue ancestral worship.
Contempt | Harmony | Husband | Love | Rebuke | Relationship | Wife | Words |
Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.
Ban Zhao, courtesy name Huiban
As Yin and Yang are not of the same nature, so man and woman have different characteristics. The distinctive quality of the Yang is rigidity; the function of the Yin is yielding. Man is honored for strength; a woman is beautiful on account of her gentleness. Hence there arose the common saying: "A man though born like a wolf may, it is feared, become a weak monstrosity; a woman though born like a mouse may, it is feared, become a tiger."
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Ban Zhao, courtesy name Huiban
To guard carefully her chastity; to control circumspectly her behavior; in every motion to exhibit modesty; and to model each act on the best usage, this is womanly virtue.
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Your Dollar is your only Word, the wrath of it your only fear. You build it altars tall enough to make you see, but your are blind; you cannot leave it long enough to look before you or behind.
Egon Friedell, born Egon Friedmann
God does not rule the world outwardly by gravitation and chemical affinity, but inwardly in the heart of man: as is your soul, so will the destiny be of the world in which you live and do.
What you are doing does not matter so much as what you are learning from doing it.
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When you have a good history of doing good things, it will come back to you.
When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.